“As human beings, we ought to be vulnerable. We shouldn't try to say that we can be self-sufficient or do everything that's necessary for a good life on our own, because we need other people.” PeopleNeedsTryingHumansSelfHuman BeingsOughtVulnerableSufficientGood LifeSelf Sufficient Author:Martha C. Nussbaum
“The thing that I find so bad about anger is the desire for payback. Of course, it is very human to wish for revenge. Your mother has died in the hospital, and the first thought a lot of people have is, I'll sue the doctor. You feel helpless, and you think, I'm less helpless if I'm doing something active that makes someone else pay. And social media make it easy to inflict all kinds of pain on other people. But what good does it do?” PeopleIfsThinkingFeelsFirstsHumansKindDoePainMotherDesireCoursesWishSocialEasyPayMediaDoctorsDiedSocial MediaActiveRevengeAll KindsHospitalsHelplessPayback Author:Martha C. Nussbaum
“The GDP approach doesn't address many aspects of human life: health, education, political liberty, religious liberty, employment opportunities. And these are not all that well correlated with gross domestic product. We also have to think about equality among groups. And freedom of speech and religion. China always ranks near the top of developing countries these days, but there are lots of things we might see as lacking in China.” ThinkingHumansWellsCountryMightPoliticalOpportunityReligiousLibertyGroupsProductsSpeechApproachAspectChinaEmploymentDevelopingThese DaysHuman LifeAddressesFreedom Of SpeechLackingGrossGdpReligious LibertyDeveloping CountriesGross Domestic ProductHealth EducationEmployment Opportunities Author:Martha C. Nussbaum
“I am a very big fan of the nation, actually. In Cicero's time, there was this idea that although we were members of the whole world of human beings, we also needed to connect our imaginations to a smaller unit. The smaller unit was something we knew we could live or die for, as Cicero died for the Roman republic.” WorldHumansIdeasWholeBigsDiesNationsImaginationHuman BeingsFansNeededMembersDiedWhole WorldRepublicUnits Author:Martha C. Nussbaum
“With the rise of capitalism, it became more obvious that people pursue individual self-interest. The great nationalist in Italy, Giuseppe Mazzini, a wonderful philosopher, said that we need the nation. We need something that people can lean on, from which they can then reach out to the whole world. The idea of all humanity is too vague. It can't motivate human aspiration in a reliable way.” PeopleWorldWayNeedsHumansSaidIdeasSelfWholeHumanityIndividualNationsInterestWonderfulCapitalismPhilosopherObviousWhole WorldPursueAspirationReach OutVagueSelf Interest Author:Martha C. Nussbaum
“To be a good human being is to have a kind of openness to the world, an ability to trust uncertain things beyond your own control, that can lead you to be shattered in very extreme circumstances for which you were not to blame. That says something very important about the condition of the ethical life: that it is based on a trust in the uncertain and on a willingness to be exposed; it’s based on being more like a plant than like a jewel, something rather fragile, but whose very particular beauty is inseparable from that fragility.” WorldHumansKindImportantHuman BeingsAbilityRiskConditionsParticularCircumstancesBlamePlantExtremesWillingnessEthicalOpennessFragileExposedUncertainJewelsShatteredInseparableFragilityGood Human BeingFragility Of Life Author:Martha C. Nussbaum
“Disgust relies on moral obtuseness. It is possible to view another human being as a slimy slug or a piece of revolting trash only if one has never made a serious good-faith attempt to see the world through that person’s eyes or to experience that person’s feelings. Disgust imputes to the other a subhuman nature. How, by contrast, do we ever become able to see one another as human? Only through the exercise of imagination.” IfsWorldHumansPersonsMadeFeelingsEyeAbleImaginationHuman BeingsViewsMoralPiecesSeriousExerciseRelyContrastDisgustingTrashGood FaithSlugs Book:From Disgust to Humanity: Sexual Orientation and Constitutional Law Source: From Disgust to Humanity: Sexual Orientation and Constitutional Law
“But the life that no longer trust another human being and no longer forms ties to the political community is not a human life any longer.” HumansFormPoliticalCommunityHuman BeingsHuman LifeTies Author:Martha C. Nussbaum
“To be a good human being is to have a kind of openness to the world, an ability to trust uncertain things beyond your own control.” WorldHumansKindHuman BeingsAbilityOpennessUncertainFragilityGood Human Being Author:Martha C. Nussbaum
